Journalist Marfa Khvostova of the online magazine Novaya Vkladka spent a week in the summer volunteering at a military hospital in one of Russia's cities. Global Voices translated, edited for clarity ...

Memory plays a crucial role in people's social and working lives. Now, new research shows that verbal (i.e. linguistic) memory also determines whether psychiatric patients diagnosed with bipolar ...

San Francisco is doubling the capacity of its locked psychiatric ward for patients experiencing severe mental illness and addiction as the city continues to add beds to deal with the crisis on its ...

In almost every state in the country, the supply of inpatient psychiatric care is insufficient to meet the demand. In a 2006 survey, 34 state mental health authorities reported a shortage of beds for ...

Where did the data come from? To report this story, The Times analyzed data collected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the federal agency that has gathered restraint information from ...

Editor’s note: Yu Lei is a nurse at a tertiary psychiatric hospital in China’s eastern Jiangsu province with more than 10 years of experience. Her hospital receives patients with various mental health ...

On June 1, a beautiful Sunday evening, a frightening incident occurred at Nuremberg, Germany’s North Hospital (Nordklinikum): a 19-year-old patient was injured by police gunfire in the clinic’s ...

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